TA and Course Designer Roles & Permissions

Teaching Assistants for your course have special roles and permissions on Canvas as either TAs or Course Designers. TAs must be graduate students. Course Designers can be undergraduate or graduate students or staff members. You can add these user types to your Canvas site yourself.

TAs and Course Designers share the following permissions:

Add, edit, and delete pages

Add, edit, and delete course files

Add, edit, and delete assignments and quizzes

Add, edit, and delete events in the course calendar

Post to, edit and delete discussions

Post announcements

Create web conferences

View a list of all users

Create, edit, and delete groups

View pages for all student groups

TAs have the following additional permissions not available for Course Designers:

View and comment on all student submissions

Send messages to individual course members

View and edit grades

View course analytics

TAs, Course Designers, and Teachers are not permitted to add or remove students or Auditors to or from the course.